M. C. v. A. W.

Citations

• 226 Conn. App. 444

Syllabus

The defendant appealed to this court from the judgment of the trial court dissolving his marriage to the plaintiff and entering certain financial orders. Held: 1. This court declined to review the defendant's unpreserved claim that the trial court committed error by failing to recuse itself and by demonstra- ting judicial bias as the record was not adequate for review: the defendant failed to file a motion to disqualify the judge presiding over the action at any time prior to the dissolution judgment; moreover, contrary to the defendant's claim that he preserved the issue by virtue of his trial counsel raising it to the judge in chambers, there was no record of such conversa- tion, and the defendant failed to file a motion for rectification to preserve any such conversation; furthermore, the claim could not be reviewed for plain error because there was no evidence indicating that the purported colloquy between the parties and the judge in chambers in relation to the recusal issue actually occurred nor was there any evidence of bias by the judge. 2. The defendant could not prevail on his claim that the trial court made clearly erroneous factual findings in support of its financial and property distribution orders; the court's findings as to the plaintiff's health and how the plaintiff conducted her business were supported by evidence in the record. 3. The defendant could not prevail on his claim that the trial court did not adequately consider the plaintiff's noncompliance with the court's discovery orders in entering its financial and property distribution orders: the court expressly found that the plaintiff was uncooperative vis-à-vis discovery and that she delayed, or wholly withheld, financial information, and the decision further reflected that the court considered the plaintiff's discovery noncompliance to the detriment of the plaintiff, as the court awarded no alimony to either party, which aligned with the defendant's operative proposed orders and which refl